Assessing the utility and efficacy of e-OSCE among undergraduate medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Mean and median scores of students in face-to-face (pre-COVID-19) and e-OSCE (during COVID-19) in medicine II, surgery II and family medicine clinical clerkships

Clinical clerkship	Before COVID-19	During COVID-19	Test^a	p-value
Family Medicine
Number of students	34	35	337	.002
Median Score	88.67	81.94
Mean score	87.28	82.58
95% Confidence Interval	85.60–88.96	80.42–84.74
Surgery II
Number of students	34	34	5.639	< .001
Median Score	90.52	84.58
Mean (Score)	90.06	84.23
95% Confidence Interval	88.67–91.44	82.65–85.81
Medicine II
Number of students	35	35	462.5	0.078
Median Score	90.80	88.11
Mean Score	88.61	85.53
95% Confidence Interval	86.60–90.63	82.94–88.13

^aTest value is t-test if the data were normally distributed and Mann–Whitney U test if the data were skewed

ISSN: 1472-6920